Li Qian reports: A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign spy agency between 2002 and 2011, China Central Television revealed yesterday. Huang Yu, 48, was paid a total of US$700,000 for the information, CCTV said. It didn’t say when sentence was passed, or…
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Failed blackmail nets ex-Leumi Card employee 11 years in jail
Gur Megiddo reports a follow-up on an insider breach that occurred in 2014 and was previously covered here and here: A former Leumi Card employee convicted of stealing information from the credit card company’s database as a precursor to blackmail has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Eliran Rosnis admitted the charges against him…
Yahoo’s FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident
Maria Nikolova reports a follow-up to a previously reported incident involving YJFX: The analysis has shown that 185,626 pieces of information were taken out. 128,220 pieces of information were in a status in which public browsing was possible, but were not accessed. 56,665 pieces of information were accessed through search engine crawlers. 741 pieces of…
US jury fines Tata Consultancy Services $940m for healthcare software ‘theft’
Speaking of a contractor’s employees exceeding authorized access, Chidanand Rajghatta reports that a Wisconsin federal jury slapped a $940-million penalty, including $700 million in punitive damages, on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for allegedly stealing healthcare software from an American company, Epic Systems. Epic Systems, a US-based electronics medical records vendor, had accused TCS of stealing documents and…
Hack of ShapeShift Bitcoin Trader Was Inside Job, Says CEO
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Last week we reported on a data breach that forced Bitcoin trader ShapeShift to temporarily shut down operations. In an update provided on Reddit, ShapeShift CEO, Erik Voorhees, says the attacker had help from a company employee. “Since the investigation into the ShapeShift hack last week started, we had suspicion that someone previously on…
RI: ABC6 Personnel Record Breach Leads to State Police Investigation, 4 Fired and 3 Suspended
GoLocalProv reports: A breach of highly confidential personnel records at ABC6 has lead to an investigation by the Rhode Island State Police, the firing for four members of the news organization and three suspensions. Included in the firings is Alexandra Cowley, the anchor for the evening news and an emerging star in the Providence television…